Standard 6: Students will demonstrate the ability to use goal-setting skills to enhance health.
6.8.3 Apply strategies and skills needed to attain a personal health goal.
Standard 7: Demonstrate the ability to practice health-enhancing behaviors and avoid or reduce health risks.
7.8.2 Demonstrate healthy practices and behaviors that will maintain or improve the health of self and others.
7.8.3 Demonstrate behaviors to avoid or reduce health risks to self and others.
Technology
iPod Touch
Description
Students will learn about the iPod Touch, how to use it, and about the course assignment.
Students and parents will be required to sign a rights and responsibilities document regarding the iPod equipment.
Students will record their food intake and track daily calories in the iPod Touch for one week.
Students will align their calorie intake with expected calculated healthy caloric intake and determine the difference.
Students will then create healthy food menus on the iPod and work to follow the menu plan and monitor calories for the second week.
Supporting Resource
According to Dale & Pymm (2009), the use of iPods in the classroom to support the education process caused various learning themes to emerge. Included in these themes were: flexible learning, creative learning, sensory learning, personalized learning, and collaborative learning. Students, thus, are able to use a technology to track information that is important to their health. The technology draws the student into the assignment by creating more engaging instruction.
References:
Dale, C., & Pymm J. M. (2009). Podagogy: The iPod as a learning technology. Active Learning in Higher Education, 10(1), 84-96.
Tried and
True
or
New and Innovative
This is considered a new and innovative method of technology because it incorporates hand held computing with electronic tracking of data. Most students will have used a form of iPod technology prior to eighth grade.
Content Area
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Curriculum Standard
Standard 6: Students will demonstrate the ability to use goal-setting skills to enhance health.
6.8.3 Apply strategies and skills needed to attain a personal health goal.
Standard 7: Demonstrate the ability to practice health-enhancing behaviors and avoid or reduce health risks.
7.8.2 Demonstrate healthy practices and behaviors that will maintain or improve the health of self and others.
7.8.3 Demonstrate behaviors to avoid or reduce health risks to self and others.
Technology
Description
Supporting Resource
References:
Dale, C., & Pymm J. M. (2009). Podagogy: The iPod as a learning technology. Active Learning in Higher Education, 10(1), 84-96.
Tried and
True
or
New and Innovative